Dominique Strauss-Kahn: my affair with the 'king of pigs', by Marcela Iacub

Dominique Strauss-Kahn would have turned the Elysée Palace into a “swingers’
club” if he had become president, according to an Argentine lawyer who had
an affair with the former IMF chief after he faced rape charges.

In explosive extracts published on Thursday from her book Beauty and Beast, Marcela Iacub describes the 64-year-old one-time Socialist presidential hopeful as “half man, half pig”.

She blames his estranged wife, Anne Sinclair, the former television presenter and heiress to an art fortune, for treating him like a “poodle” and forcing him to run for president instead of giving his wild side free rein.

“You would have transformed the Elysée into a giant swingers’ club,” writes the 48-year-old legal expert in passages published in Le Nouvel Observateur, a weekly magazine. “You would have used your assistants, henchmen, advisers and staff as touts, orgy organisers, experts in the art of satisfying your darkest urges.

“You claimed that you were ready to give your blood for your country when in fact you would have used this country to spill your inexhaustible sperm.”

But she saves her fiercest prose for Miss Sinclair, 64, who she claims dreamt of being first lady and thought she and her husband “belonged to the caste of the masters of the world”, once even telling her: “There is no harm in getting a blow job from a cleaning lady”.

The claims drew a furious response from her ex-lover and his estranged wife. Mr Strauss-Kahn said he felt “doubly disgusted” with the account, which was “inaccurate”, and the “behaviour of a woman who seduces to write a book, claiming to have amorous feelings to exploit them financially”.

Miss Sinclair said Miss Iacub had delivered a “slanderous and crazy interpretation of my thoughts”. She told Le Nouvel Observateur: “You give credit to the manoeuvres of a perverse and dishonest woman, driven by a fascination for the sensational and the lure of money.”

The magazine responded that the book was a work of “stupefying literary power” in the tradition of “bestial” works such as Kafka’s The Metamorphosis.

Miss Iacub said she met Mr Strauss-Kahn in Jan 2012 after coming out in his defence over the Nafissatou Diallo case, in which the New York hotel maid accused him of rape. Arrested in May 2011, Mr Strauss-Kahn was later cleared of criminal charges due to doubts over the maid’s account. In December the pair reportedly reached a settlement in a civil suit of more than a million dollars.

After Miss Iacub wrote an essay defending Mr Strauss-Kahn, he texted her: “You who like writing, tell me what you want to do with me later.” There followed a seven-month affair in which Miss Iacub said she fell totally in love with “the king of the pigs”. She writes: “Pigs have a relationship with the present that humans hardly have. They never cease relishing the incredible luck of being alive, eating, running, sullying, wounding, feeling.”

Mr Strauss-Kahn still faces up to 20 years in prison over his alleged role in a sprawling group sex vice racket. He is also accused of knowing that fraudulently obtained money from businessmen friends was used to fund the network.